Reconstructions of the continents around the North Atlantic at about the 60th parallel

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 187, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 55-69

  Torsvik, Trond H ^a,d   Van Der Voo, Rob ^b   Meert, Joseph G ^a,e   Mosar, Jon ^a   Walderhaug, Harald J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent polar wandering; Extension; North Atlantic; Paleogeography; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; CARBONIFEROUS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PANGAEA; TERTIARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE; GREENLAND;

EID: 0035024670     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00284-9     Document Type: Article

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